Things that nullify namâz

Question: What are the things that nullfiy namâz?
ANSWER
Things that nullify a namâz are called mufsids. A worship being fâsid or bâtil is the same; it means it is broken, nullified.
Some of them are as follows:

1- To talk. Even one word nullifies namâz. It always nullifies namâz regardless of whether it is said intentionally or inadvertently or under duress or by forgetting. However, it does not nullify namâz to say the salâm at the end of the first sitting posture, mistaking it for the second sitting. Yet if you say, “Assalâmu,” thinking that the namâz is of two rak’ats, or if you say it while standing, your namâz becomes nullified. To respond to someone else’s greeting, in any manner whatsoever, nullifies namâz.

2- Without a good excuse, coughing through the throat nullifies namâz. If it happens involuntarily, it does not nullify namâz. If you do it in order to facilitate your recitation, it is harmless.

3- To say prayers in namâz that do not exist in âyats or hadîths nullifies namâz. It is written in Durr-ul-mukhtâr: “The prayer to be said before making the salâm has to be in Arabic. It is harâm to pray in any other language during namâz.” At this point Ibni ‘Âbidîn explains: “Imâm-i Abû Yûsuf and Imâm-i Muhammad said that namâz performed in any language other than Arabic would not be accepted. Imâm-i A’zam’s later ijtihâd tallies with it.”

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                                                Cevap Veremedi

Sual: Cevap Veremedi kitabında neler var?
CEVAP
Harputlu İshak Efendi’nin Diyâ-ül-kulûb kitabının tercümesidir. İsa aleyhisselama gönderilen ve hak kitap olan İncil’in tahrif edilmesiyle ortaya çıkan dört kitap, Matta, Markos, Luka ve Yuhanna İncilleri hakkında bilgi vermekte, bunlar arasındaki çelişki ve ihtilafları açıklamaktadır. Kur’an-ı kerimle İncil karşılaştırılmakta, İncilin hükümlerinin yürürlükten kalktığı, Kur’ân-ı kerimin bütün semavî kitapların hükümlerini yürürlükten kaldırdığı izah edilmektedir. Hıristiyanların teslis [üç tanrı] inancının yanlış olduğu, Allahü teâlânın bir olduğu, ilim ve kudret sıfatları açıklanmaktadır. İsa aleyhisselâmın insan ve Peygamber olduğu, ona tapılamayacağı izah edilmektedir. Yahudilik, Tevrat ve Talmud hakkında da yeterli bilgi vardır.

Kitabın önsözünde özetle deniyor ki:
Allahü teâlâ, ilk insan ve ilk Peygamber olan Âdem aleyhisselâmdan beri, her bin senede din sahibi yeni bir Peygamber vasıtasıyla, insanlara dinler göndermiştir. Bunlar vasıtasıyla, insanların dünyada rahat, huzur içinde yaşamaları ve ahirette de sonsuz saadete kavuşmaları yolunu bildirmiştir. Şimdi, dünyada semavî kitabı olan üç din vardır: Yahudilik, Hıristiyanlık, İslamiyet. Yahudiler Musa aleyhisselamın, Hıristiyanlar İsa aleyhisselamın getirdiği dine tâbi olduklarını söylerler. Şimdi, hiçbir yerde, hakikî Tevrat ve İncil yoktur. Bu kitaplar sonradan tahrif edilmiş, yani insanlar tarafından değiştirilmiştir. Kur’an-ı kerim, en son Peygamber olan, Peygamberimiz Muhammed aleyhisselama gönderilmiştir. Kur’an-ı kerim, bütün ilahi kitapların hükümlerini neshetmiş, yani yürürlükten kaldırmış ve bu hükümleri kendisinde toplamıştır. Bugün, bütün insanların Kur’an-ı kerime tâbi olmaları lazımdır.

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                                      Are women’s voices harâm?

Question: Some people say that it is halâl [permitted] for women to talk to nâ-mahram men [not one of the eighteen men whom Islam has prescribed as a woman’s close relatives]. Is it not harâm [prohibited]?
ANSWER
It took 23 years for the rules of Islam to be introduced. It is a mistake to deal with those events that took place before the âyat commanding (women) to cover themselves was revealed and thus to consider it mubâh [permissible] for them to talk to nâ-mahram men. Similarly, drinking alcohol had not been a sin before it was forbidden. By instancing the past events that took place, can we say, “Drinking alcohol is mubâh because it was drunk during our Prophet’s time which was termed the Asr-i-Sa’âdat [Era of Happiness]”? In the same way, by giving the cases in former prophets’ religions as examples, is it said, “See, it is permissible (for men) to talk to women”? In the religion of Hadrat Âdam (‘alaihissalâm), it was permissible to marry some people who are now harâm to marry. Afterwards, that permission was lifted. Is it proper to give then rules as examples for present events?

Jâriyas’ [non-Muslim female slaves captured in war] singing songs cannot be put forth as an example for free women. When Hadrat ‘Umar (radîy-Allahu ‘anh) recommended decreasing the amount of mahr, an old woman behind the curtain, in an act of objection, recited the 20th âyat of Sûrat-un-Nisâ’, which reads: “Don’t take anything back from the wife you have divorced, even if you gave her loads (of gold as mahr).” Hadrat ‘Umar did not object to that woman.

[mahr: according to Islam, the mahr comprises things like gold, silver, banknotes, or any kind of property or any kind of benefit that is given by a man to the woman he is to marry.]

Some heretics claim, “This event shows that a woman’s voice is not harâm.” But they do not explain that the woman behind the curtain was old; an old woman’s voice is not harâm. Some rules which are permissible for old women may not be permissible for the young ones.

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